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NBC and ABC have decided all week long that the ethnic unrest in China's Xinjiang Province is worthy of coverage. Ian Williams and Clarissa Ward respectively were dispatched to Urumqi to follow the military crackdown following riots involving migrant Han Chinese and the local Uighur population. CBS has not assigned a reporter to the story all week long. The Chinese government banned mosques from observing Friday prayers on the Moslem weekly holy day. ABC's Ward reported that some opened anyway: "There were no fiery sermons. The prayers were quick and quiet." She followed the Uighur faithful onto the street and shot clandestine videotape of demonstrations, police violence and arrests. "From a rooftop we sneak images" but police spotted her cameras and forced her to stop. NBC's Williams noted that "anger and frustration poured out of a mosque" after the brief prayers. "The Uighurs' grievances run deep. They now make up less than half the population of their home region because of the massive migration of Han."
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